Changing the narrative...
A recent event has had me reflecting and wondering if it all could have played out any differently â alas, I think I simply had no choice but to change the narrative, and I suppose I had to do it in a dramatic way.
That was until one of them ran up behind me and jumped in front of me screaming. I then added my own narrative â and punched him in the head.
It was more of a symbolic punch because I had two work-bags over my shoulder and a pizza in one hand. Looking shocked he then screamed, "You hit me". After an exchange of bad punches and the death of my pizza, a Samaritan arrived and deescalated the situation. After some shouting I headed home with the proposition of having to make dinner.
I can still hear one of them saying, "We were just trying to scare him".
I will admit this post is somewhat cathartic but there is another important consideration aside from describing a very poor street fight. As pointed out, their narrative was to cause "mischief" and "scare"people, and that narrative was only going to change if something happened that did not align (or feed) their story (and shift the paradigm). The narrative shifted from hassling a guy with a pizza to dealing with a poor street fight (and how to get out of it). The Samaritan offered that opportunity (with little resistance), and gave us a new narrative to continue the day.
All of this became a reminder that there are times that if you want to change a narrative, you really have to change the narrative... and sometimes pizzas do get hurt.
iamgpe
PS â I'm not advocating violence, but it's never a good idea to attack someone from behind.
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Grahamđ Edwards
6 years ago #4
Thanks for the note Harvey Lloyd... yes it reminded me that it can all go south quickly and sometimes situations present themselves and you have no choice but to deal with them.
Grahamđ Edwards
6 years ago #3
Thanks for the note Jerry Fletcher. I am not... hopefully it is a bit of a lesson for them as you are right you never know what you will get when you randomly attack someone...
Harvey Lloyd
6 years ago #2
Jerry Fletcher
6 years ago #1